Elongate depressions on the southern slope of the Norwegian Trench (Skagerrak): Morphology and evolution

Marine Geology

Volumn 146, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 191-203

  Bøe, Reidulv ^a   Rise, Leif ^a   Ottesen, Dag ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bathymetric features; Bathymetry; Gas seeps; Pockmarks; Seismic data; Skagerrak

Indexed keywords

ECHOSOUNDER; GAS SEEPAGE; HAS SEEPAGE; HOLOCENE; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; POCKMARK; SEA FLOOR TOPOGRAPHY;

NORTH SEA, SKAGERRAK;

EID: 0032055539     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00133-3     Document Type: Article

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